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A type of geometry which can emerge when the fifth postulate is no longer taken to be true. Objects like triangles obey different rules in this type of geometry. For instance, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_triangle hyperbolic triangles] have angles which sum to '''less''' than <math> \pi </math> radians. In fact, we have we have a triangle with an area represented by <math> \triangle </math> and three angles represented by <math> \alpha, \beta, \gamma </math> then by the ''Johann Heinrich Lambert formula'':
A type of geometry which can emerge when the fifth postulate is no longer taken to be true. Objects like triangles obey different rules in this type of geometry. For instance, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_triangle hyperbolic triangles] have angles which sum to '''less''' than <math> \pi </math> radians. In fact, we have we have a triangle with an area represented by <math> \triangle </math> and three angles represented by <math> \alpha, \beta, \gamma </math> then by the ''Johann Heinrich Lambert formula'':


<math> \pi - (\alpha + \beta + \gamma) = C \triange </math>
<math> \pi - (\alpha + \beta + \gamma) = C \triangle </math>


where <math> C </math> is jsut some constant.
where <math> C </math> is jsut some constant.
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